Ed elisha mack



v ED n'LIsHA MAoK, or ALBANY, NEW'YORK.

Lzzm'mtem No.V 101,286, amd March. 29, 1870.

IMPRO'VEIGEN'I' 111' PAPER COLLARS.

The Schedule refermd to in. thus Letter! Patent and making part of the ma i To all 'wlw'm it may conce'm:

Be it known that I, ED ELIsnA MAcK, of the. city and county of Albany, State of New York, have invented certain new, and useful Improvements in Collars; and I do hereby deolare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings formiug a part this speoification, in which- `Figure l represents a collar opened up, showing the improvements.

Figure 3 represents a collar turned down, showing the utility of the improvernents. i Figure 3 represents a collar of greater width, iu two styles, and turned down, showing the improveinents.

Collars, as have been made heretofore, have always been attended by two very undesirable features, which lhave been a source of inconvenience and a vexation to the wearer, which are these: The button-hole in the center of the band being covered by the collar when turned down iuconveniences the wearer in but- `toning the collar to the shirt, so much that he is obliged to button the collar to its place back before it forming this deep recess or scallop in the.lower edge. i

of the collar, the bandcan be buttoned to the shirt without turning up the collar or in anywise marring its'appearance' i To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to descrihe it in reference to the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, the same letters indicating like parts.

`In the drawings- `A represents the usual band.

B represents the collar.

a is the central button-hole.

Instead of continuing a uniform line of edge of the collar from end t-o end, I make in the edge of the collar, immediately over the button-hole a, a deep recess or scallop, b, fig. 1, which scallop or recess, when the collar is'turued down, as in figs. 2 and 3, will exhibit the button-hole a, and give permission to vthe wearer to button the band A to the shirt without turning up the collar B. i

Collars have been made with a uniform line of edge, so cut as to present a very narrow width of collar back, which depth would increase as it neared the front, so that when the collar was turned down its edge. would be above the button-hole a, and would not fall over and cover the said button-hole, and,'being thus made, the said collars would work over the collar of the vest back of the neck instead of under the same, as it should do, and by so doing would often disarrange its set. Onllars thus made I do not claim.

Having descn'bed niyl invent-ion,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, iS-

The deep scallop or recesslbin the turn-over portion B of the collar, as and for the purpose described.

ED ELISHA MAOK.

Witnesses: W. M. Troxnon, ALEX. SELKIRK. 

